Word: repeals
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...rely on sheer strength in dealing with each other but will move toward establishing systems based on considerations of law and justice in the resolution of international disputes ... It must be obvious to everyone that action in this field is long overdue." Specifically, Rogers urged the U.S. Senate to repeal the so-called Connally amendment, which seriously limits the U.S. in submitting disputes to international courts...
Latest to rise in attack on the leadership of Texan Lyndon Johnson was Louisiana's Russell Long, son of Huey and nephew of Earl. Long had helped Senate liberals sweat through the Senate a proposed tax-cut program (repeal of the 4% forgiveness on dividends, repeal of Korean war excise taxes on travel, telephones, etc.), calculated to impress the voters and embarrass the Administration. Then, before Long's very eyes, the long arms of Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn reached into the meeting of Senate-House conferees to compromise away all that had been fought...
...finance a strike against himself through providing company-wide strike benefits." So said Ford Motor Co.'s Vice President John Bugas, commenting on a Michigan State Supreme Court decision which the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review last week. What the Michigan court decision did was to repeal a longstanding rule that functionally integrated plants are all part of the same establishment. Hereafter, employers may be taxed to pay unemployment compensation even when the union strikes a plant on which the whole company operation depends for an essential part...
...Reactionary" proposals, on the other hand, find favor only within a small clique at the College: only a twelfth back either repeal of antitrust legislation, or "marked reductions" in our Mutual Security program. This is the Fortnightly crowd--laughed at when they are not ignored...
...Repeal the 10% federal tax on fares. ¶ Reduce railroad property taxes, give outright community subsidies for money-losing schedules deemed essential. ¶ Experimenting, on the part of the railroads, with new, passenger-appealing types of coaches, sleeping cars, diners and other facilities, coupled with "imaginative" pricing to build volume...